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H.L."MORG AN.; FOLDING STOOL.

No. 549,457. Patented NOV. 5, 1895.

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H. L. MORGAN. FOLDING STOOL.

1%. 549,457. Patented Nov. 5, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIENRIE Ii. MORGAN, OF IIOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO WVILLIAM H. STEBBIN S, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,457, dated November 5, 1895.

Application filed April 10, 1895. serial No. 545,145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIENRIE L. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at l-lol yoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Stools, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a folding stool which shall be composed of a minimum number of parts, which shall be strong and light, and which shall be very inexpensive; and the invention consists in the combination of a central multiple-membered bracket, legs pivoted to the members of the bracket, arms pivoted to the legs and having limiting abutments against the ends of the bracket members, and the flexible seat detachably connected to the arms, all substantially as will hereinafter fully appear and be set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the folding stool set up. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of a corner portion of the seat. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the central multi-membered central bracket. Fig. 4. is an elevation of the central bracket, showing one leg pivoted to one of the bracket members and showing one arm pivoted to the leg, said leg and arm being in the position which they occupy when the stool is set up. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the last-mentioned parts as seen at right angles to Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the bracket with one of the legs connected to a bracket member and the arm which is pivotally connected to the leg, said pivotally-connected parts being' brought to an abutment and seat against said inclined rest a The pivoting of the leg 011 the one bracket member and the formation of the inclined rest on the next bracket member are done and arranged so that the legs when distended may have all required, and

yet no excessive, outward spread, in the manner of a trip rod.

The arms C are respectively pivotally connected to the legs at a short distance below the pivot 11, whereby they may be swung upwardly and outwardly in planes which are parallel with the swinging movements of the legs and which are coincident with the lines of radial extension of the bracket members,

all whereby they are brought to limiting abut- 7o ments against the upwardly and outwardly inclined ends a of the bracket members a.

The flexible seat has detachable connection with the upper ends of the arms by means of the ring-eyes f, which are provided on the 1111- 7 5 der side of the corner portions of the seat and which engage the headed studs g at the upper ends of the arms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 8o ent, is-

1. The folding stool herein described, the same consisting of a central bracket, legs, arms and seat, said central bracket comprising radial right angularly arranged members, 8 5

each having a leg pivoted to its side having a limiting abutment against the side of the next bracket member, and each leg having pivoted thereto, below its bracket pivot, an

arm, which on being upwardly-outwardly o swung, has a limiting abutment against the end of the same bracket member to which the side arm is pivoted, the flexible seat being detachably connected to the upper ends of the said arms, substantially as described.

2. In a folding stool, the combination with the central bracket having the several angularly extending members each with the beveled rest a at its side near its inner end and having the upwardly and outwardly inclined IOO end a of the legs pivoted sidewise to the bracket members and adapted when swung to have bearings and abntments against said rests (1 of the adjacent bracket members, the arms side'wise pivoted to the legs below the pivotal connections of the latter and adapted when upwardly swung to have limitin g abutments against the said inclined ends of the bracket members, and the flexible seat detachably connected to the upper ends of IO said arms, substantially as described.

IIENRIE L. MORGAN.

\Vit'nesses:

WILLIAM S. BELLows. K. I. CLEMONS. 

